Depression Poems
#depression
Depression takes a person beyond feelings of sadness, to a very dark and lonely place. Poetry about depression offers the reader a glimpse into this darkness and isolation. Depression is a serious mental disorder. A creative outlet, like writing poetry, can offer relief to some sufferers.
Vortex32167
Poem Published
Today 8:59pm
Today 8:59pm
The draining of the Day
My soul is drained of all hope and light.
A dark void lurks and keeps me company.
Creeping in the cracks I showed over time,
It is trying to take me over completely.
Darker and grimmer my days become,
Slowly and surely killing the joy I once had.
Sadness, pain, my mind has reached its limit,
The constant chatter and noise drives me mad.
I’ve shown my weakness to it, it knows where to hurt,
He has shown me the way out, I know where to go.
The way is clear and my intentions are justified.
Now It’s only, when and how will I...
A dark void lurks and keeps me company.
Creeping in the cracks I showed over time,
It is trying to take me over completely.
Darker and grimmer my days become,
Slowly and surely killing the joy I once had.
Sadness, pain, my mind has reached its limit,
The constant chatter and noise drives me mad.
I’ve shown my weakness to it, it knows where to hurt,
He has shown me the way out, I know where to go.
The way is clear and my intentions are justified.
Now It’s only, when and how will I...
#sadness
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
#emptiness
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Seth_
Seth_
Poem Published
Today 1:00am
Today 1:00am
Rise and Rise Again
Died again today
Just to live for tomorrow
Suck down the pain and say
It's all worth the sorrow
Broken down again
Rise and fight again
Broke and down again
Rise and fly again
Camera and a microphone
Helps me feel like I'm not alone
Pictures and torn up memories
Gentle whispers of home
Broken down again
Rise and fight again
Broke and down again
Rise and fly again
Another knife, another rope
Another hug from a stranger
Another reason to try
Another reason to have hope
...
Just to live for tomorrow
Suck down the pain and say
It's all worth the sorrow
Broken down again
Rise and fight again
Broke and down again
Rise and fly again
Camera and a microphone
Helps me feel like I'm not alone
Pictures and torn up memories
Gentle whispers of home
Broken down again
Rise and fight again
Broke and down again
Rise and fly again
Another knife, another rope
Another hug from a stranger
Another reason to try
Another reason to have hope
...
#depression
#motivational
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
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copingwithwords__
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:17pm
Yesterday 8:17pm
unstable
she‘s an everlasting, everswinging pendulum
swinging from bad to worse
like a magnet pulling me in, seems like my curse,
my soundtrack - drowning with a gentle hum
a rusty voice, an old soul and a broken heart
put together in an aching body, torn apart.
flowing, surviving; dreaming of the abyss
whereas in reality she‘s dreaming of anything but living like this.
and that’s in her hands, really
she’s got what’s needed, just wants to be held
throughout the storm to see clearly
what was with her in the beginning, what was so...
swinging from bad to worse
like a magnet pulling me in, seems like my curse,
my soundtrack - drowning with a gentle hum
a rusty voice, an old soul and a broken heart
put together in an aching body, torn apart.
flowing, surviving; dreaming of the abyss
whereas in reality she‘s dreaming of anything but living like this.
and that’s in her hands, really
she’s got what’s needed, just wants to be held
throughout the storm to see clearly
what was with her in the beginning, what was so...
#anxiety
#depression
#strength
#SelfHarm
#suffering
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Grace
Idryad
Idryad
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2023 11:35am
3rd Feb 2023 11:35am
What time is it, Mr,Clock
there was no echo to the shout
no refrains to the song
no sounds in the applause
no shouts no songs no applause
it was a walk on furrowed fields
no mines, but slithery creatures
wedged in the deep rows
waiting to be planted with sorrows
the roots of all the sighs
the cries, the gobbling sobs
of grief on the threshold of insanity
was seeded with dragon teeth
as Cadmus did
to save his sister and his soul
as mine was planted
through indifference and ignorance
it was
just a
long walk.
no refrains to the song
no sounds in the applause
no shouts no songs no applause
it was a walk on furrowed fields
no mines, but slithery creatures
wedged in the deep rows
waiting to be planted with sorrows
the roots of all the sighs
the cries, the gobbling sobs
of grief on the threshold of insanity
was seeded with dragon teeth
as Cadmus did
to save his sister and his soul
as mine was planted
through indifference and ignorance
it was
just a
long walk.
#depression
#dreams
#memories
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MartenHoyle
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2023 5:25am
3rd Feb 2023 5:25am
The Road
The Road”
What has become of the blue of the sky?
I see no light as the stars slowly die.
All is dark here since the rain went away.
The clouds have fallen and faded to grey.
Though I know the birds have come home to sing,
I still wonder what became of everything.
You said it would be this way if I wanted to go—
But it wasn’t something you could expect me to know.
Though there are many roads that I have crossed,
I never knew anything, save what I had lost.
Now what I’d give to lose what is following me:
The very thing you...
What has become of the blue of the sky?
I see no light as the stars slowly die.
All is dark here since the rain went away.
The clouds have fallen and faded to grey.
Though I know the birds have come home to sing,
I still wonder what became of everything.
You said it would be this way if I wanted to go—
But it wasn’t something you could expect me to know.
Though there are many roads that I have crossed,
I never knew anything, save what I had lost.
Now what I’d give to lose what is following me:
The very thing you...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness #LifeStruggles
#loneliness #LifeStruggles
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Vampyre497
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2023 1:30pm
2nd Feb 2023 1:30pm
Guilty
I never felt welcomed back
Everything seemed to attack
I had to leave to save me
But I still feel guilty
I never learned to fly for my size
There was nothing to be done to prize
Nothing changed from my fall
I wonder if I regret it all
I never know how I feel
I spent my time ending seal
I thought I was a second son
But the love was already done
Everything seemed to attack
I had to leave to save me
But I still feel guilty
I never learned to fly for my size
There was nothing to be done to prize
Nothing changed from my fall
I wonder if I regret it all
I never know how I feel
I spent my time ending seal
I thought I was a second son
But the love was already done
#anxiety
#depression
#regret
#loneliness
#dark
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Seth_
Seth_
Poem Published
1st Feb 2023 1:48pm
1st Feb 2023 1:48pm
Darkness
It's never the darkness that scares me
But what screams from within it
Telling them to go away to no avail
They were never there
Before you created them
How do you turn it off?
Outside of death?
Dangerous; feeding
Shadows will exist even after death
The bit of darkness we cannot exist without
Nor it without us
Our own personal reminder of what is inescapable
Madness exists there in the darkness
The visibly quiet and still
Some will say nothing is there
They do not live there
...
But what screams from within it
Telling them to go away to no avail
They were never there
Before you created them
How do you turn it off?
Outside of death?
Dangerous; feeding
Shadows will exist even after death
The bit of darkness we cannot exist without
Nor it without us
Our own personal reminder of what is inescapable
Madness exists there in the darkness
The visibly quiet and still
Some will say nothing is there
They do not live there
...
#anxiety
#depression
#dark
#dreams
#MentalHealth
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Mrd
Mr. D
Mr. D
Poem Published
1st Feb 2023 9:38am
1st Feb 2023 9:38am
that dark night
It is early in the morning
Late at night,
A mid-November night
In late September.
The dog sleeps,
Wet and muddied,
A musty stench
From his midnight feasting
On something too long dead
Beyond resurrection.
All is a whirlwind of blue-skinned
Krishna dancing in a vortex
Or Kokopeli hunching in the rain
Over a Kali Ma
Flute of bone
Of questionable provenance.
My words cower in the shadow
Of my inner jail
Doing time for unspecified offenses.
Even as the soybeans ripen,
Sodden in ...
Late at night,
A mid-November night
In late September.
The dog sleeps,
Wet and muddied,
A musty stench
From his midnight feasting
On something too long dead
Beyond resurrection.
All is a whirlwind of blue-skinned
Krishna dancing in a vortex
Or Kokopeli hunching in the rain
Over a Kali Ma
Flute of bone
Of questionable provenance.
My words cower in the shadow
Of my inner jail
Doing time for unspecified offenses.
Even as the soybeans ripen,
Sodden in ...
#depression
#dark
#death
#emptiness
#apathy
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Fishmander
Poem Published
1st Feb 2023 8:37am
1st Feb 2023 8:37am
In Plain Sight
We all take turns playing demon
Impassioned, defeated
But not all can perform shadow
On the ceiling, in the gallows
They spend too much time on hatred
Heart fetal, so naked
Singing the flute of their lava
All the feelings, the cheap drama
I had friends in sacred places
They blister, no faces
Replaced by myself book-burning
Not biblical, just page turning
You taste a gram of my magics
Less spellbound, more addict
Hoping to find versions of me
We buried here so long ago
I'm...
Impassioned, defeated
But not all can perform shadow
On the ceiling, in the gallows
They spend too much time on hatred
Heart fetal, so naked
Singing the flute of their lava
All the feelings, the cheap drama
I had friends in sacred places
They blister, no faces
Replaced by myself book-burning
Not biblical, just page turning
You taste a gram of my magics
Less spellbound, more addict
Hoping to find versions of me
We buried here so long ago
I'm...
#anxiety
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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cpizzi
Christian P
Christian P
Poem Published
31st Jan 2023 4:02pm
31st Jan 2023 4:02pm
anxiety’s casualty
walking on eggshells and watching my tone
thoughts racing so fast but talking real slow
i love you so but i know you’re a troubled soul
your problems multiply from your own mind
into mine and they have grown out of control
consuming us both leaving me trapped with nowhere to go
carrying all these worries around is such a fatal
blow
now i know your problems are not mine they are your own
i have to but i don’t want to let you know now
that i have to let you go but i don’t know how
i hope...
thoughts racing so fast but talking real slow
i love you so but i know you’re a troubled soul
your problems multiply from your own mind
into mine and they have grown out of control
consuming us both leaving me trapped with nowhere to go
carrying all these worries around is such a fatal
blow
now i know your problems are not mine they are your own
i have to but i don’t want to let you know now
that i have to let you go but i don’t know how
i hope...
#anxiety
#love
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
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Vampyre497
Poem Published
31st Jan 2023 2:28pm
31st Jan 2023 2:28pm
Bankrupt
Standing with the power over
As if irritation would emote to cover
I cannot hold myself above
I feel my stomach sink in love
I hate that I can't save anything
My heart beats in terminal spring
Leave myself behind my mind
I never know what you'll find
I'm falling out of work
My mind is hurting torque
I don't want to force my hand
But I don't know if I can
I feel blind in my mind forever
Eyes of black hide to tether
Passing fate and life unjust
Nothing I write clears the lust
I'm falling further into...
As if irritation would emote to cover
I cannot hold myself above
I feel my stomach sink in love
I hate that I can't save anything
My heart beats in terminal spring
Leave myself behind my mind
I never know what you'll find
I'm falling out of work
My mind is hurting torque
I don't want to force my hand
But I don't know if I can
I feel blind in my mind forever
Eyes of black hide to tether
Passing fate and life unjust
Nothing I write clears the lust
I'm falling further into...
#sadness
#anxiety
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
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Seth_
Seth_
Poem Published
30th Jan 2023 8:56am
30th Jan 2023 8:56am
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Memories pulse like an unstable current
Thoughts spiral and collapse out of my skull
Emotions collide with words and spit themselves out
And I'm left choking with regret
All the reasons spin and twist into excuses for desire
Can't grow a thing without tilling the soil first
Can't grow out of the old clothes, if you never stand up straight
The world looks different when I can look you in the eye
Appetite for destruction, but you never leave the house
It's getting hard to hide and now they don't ask questions
Clipping the capsules,...
Thoughts spiral and collapse out of my skull
Emotions collide with words and spit themselves out
And I'm left choking with regret
All the reasons spin and twist into excuses for desire
Can't grow a thing without tilling the soil first
Can't grow out of the old clothes, if you never stand up straight
The world looks different when I can look you in the eye
Appetite for destruction, but you never leave the house
It's getting hard to hide and now they don't ask questions
Clipping the capsules,...
#sadness
#depression
#dark
#bipolar
#MentalHealth
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